Dalke Scientific Software, LLC today announced the release of version
1.0 of PyDaylight
package. PyDaylight is a rapid application development library for
chemical informatics. Written for the Python programming langauge, it
is based on the Daylight toolkit and adds high-level interfaces such
as objects, exceptions, iterators, and depiction libraries. This
release adds support for version 4.91 of the Daylight toolkit.

Says Andrew Dalke, founder of Dalke Scientific Software, "PyDaylight
is a mature system with over 6 years of use in biotechs and pharmas.
The code base only changes these days when the underlying toolkit
changes so the '1.0' numbering is long since due."

"Daylight" and "Daylight toolkit" are registered
trademarks of Daylight Chemical Information Systems, Inc. Daylight
C.I.S. is neither affiliated with nor responsible for PyDaylight.
All other marks are property of their respective owners.

The slides from Andrew Dalke's presentation at the 2004 EuroPython
conference in Göteborg are now
available. They provide an overview of different Python libraries
for computational chemistry and biology.

April 11, 2004:
Andrew Dalke of Dalke Scientific Software was asked by the National Bioinformatics Network of
South Africa to teach a two-week course on introductory programming
for bioinformatics using Python. It took place 2-14 Feb at NBN's
site in Bellville, South Africa.

The class had nearly 30 people in it with backgrounds from college
seniors to bioinformatics staff researchers, and programming
experience ranging from none to several years. The course stepped
through the basics of programming with many hand-on exercises,
including some meant to be challenging to the more experienced people.

Said Dr. Dan Jacobson, head of the NBN, "the students enjoyed your
course immensely and I am happy that you were able to give them such a
good introduction to Python."

January 12, 2003:
Dalke Scientific Software, LLC today announced the release of their
EUtils client for the Entrez databases at NCBI, including PubMed and
GenBank. Written for the Python programming language, this package
makes it easy to write programs which query the database, retrieve
records, and get information about related records.

August 25, 2002:
Dalke Scientific Software, LLC today announced the release of version
0.85 of their PyDaylight package. "The previous release focused on
improving the ease of installation," said founder Andrew Dalke. "We
got great feedback on that, and now we've returned to filling out
support for the Daylight toolkit. Most notably we added fingerprint
support, which was our most frequently requested feature. In addition,
for those writing GUIs, we improved depiction support and included an
interface to Trolltech's Qt library."

August 6, 2002:
The two presentations by Andrew Dalke for last week's BOSC
(Bioinformatics Open Source Conference) are now available. The main
talk introduces the field of
software usability, including some of the
special advantages and problems of making open source bioinformatics
software more usable. The second is a lightning talk on the
flat-file
indexing specification.

July 2002:
Andrew Dalke will be at BOSC and ISMB next month. In addition to
being an organizer of the BOSC conference he will be presenting a talk
on usability in bioinformatics software and why it's important and a
lightning talk on the new Open Bioinformatics Foundation flat-file
indexing specification

February 4, 2002:
The three presentations by Andrew Dalke for last week's O'Reilly
Bioinformatics Technology Conference are
now available.
The two main talks are titled "Biopython" and "Martel, Parsing, and
Bioformats" and cover two of the core technologies developed by Dalke
Scientific Software. The third presentation is a lightning talk
titled "A Plea for Paranoia" and describes why defensive programming
is needed and how to make safer software.

January 14, 2002:
Andrew Dalke's essay titled
"Why I'm Not Supporting the Open Informatics Petition"
was published today on the O'Reilly Network. Dalke Scientific
Software is a strong supporters of open-source software but believe
the petition, which wants to require that all government funded
academic software be released under an Open Source license, will
hinder scientific development and will not achieve its aims of ready
access to source code for non-profit purposes. The petition is
available from
OpenInformatics.org.
Andrew also wrote a
clarifiation essay
describing his interpretation of open source.

October 16, 2001:
Yesterday Electric Genetics and O'Reilly & Associates announced their
selection of Andrew Dalke, Jeff Chang, and Brad Chapman as attendees
of the invitation-only Open Source Bioinformatics Hackathon. Andrew
and Jeff started the Biopython project and all three are associated
with Dalke Scientific Software.

September 30, 2001:
Today Andrew Dalke was elected Secretary of the Open Bioinformatics
Foundation (OBF). The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is an umbrella
group for the various Bio*.org projects that grew out of the original
BioPerl project. The goal of the foundation is to provide financial,
administrative and technical assistance for our various open source
life science projects and the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference.

Copenhagen, July 17, 2001:
Andrew Dalke announced at BOSC this morning that his company, Dalke
Scientific Software, now provides commercial consulting and support
services for Biopython. Biopython is an international collaboration
to collect and produce open source bioinformatics tools written in the
Python programming language.